298 FAMILIAR TREES AND THEIR LEAVES. 



Red Cedar. Red cedar is a dark-hued tree of 



Juniperus Virginiana. com p ac t habit, popularly consid- 

 ered less beautiful than useful. It is certainly pic- 

 turesque in some of its rugged and varied forms, 

 but as it advances in age a certain raggedness of 

 figure unfits it for the ornamentation of a neat and 

 prim park, the orderly gardener of which prides him- 

 self on his success in excluding what I might call the 

 wild and picturesque romanticism of Nature. But 

 in Bucks County, Pa., I am told that many hill- 

 sides are ornamented with its Gothic figure (indeed, 

 its contour is strikingly suggestive of the 

 pointed arch), and that the landscape is 

 greatly enriched by its somber 

 and refreshing dull green. To 

 my mind, there are few trees 

 whose sober coloring is invested 

 with so great a charm. I call 

 to remembrance certain speci- 

 mens growing in Virginia 

 whose green is beautifully 

 tinged with rusty red, and 

 others elsewhere with a green pervaded by warm 

 orange. In Roxbury, Mass., there are also many rusty 

 colored trees. Not the least interesting effect of the 

 coloring in the red cedar is the cadet blue-gray of 

 the berries which plentifully besprinkle the branchlets 



